Franzone Family Blog

Nothing new or interesting to tell today, only I think I am about done with the cold. I’m not really all that infatuated with the snow any longer either. I guess that’s just the way it goes, though it would probably help if I had my family with me. I really miss my lady and my children.

One thing new is that our office reorganized seating arrangements. This was to accommodate four additional software engineers from Regis Corporation that are working on the same project as I am. This means that we now have around sixteen developers in the same workspace. Needless to say… it gets a little noisy and chatty sometimes. The good thing is that my desk is right smack-dab in front of the window. Now you might be thinking, “what’s so great about that if it’s dark all the time?” Well, it’s not dark all the time… just most of the time. It starts getting light around 11:00 AM now and is fairly bright by noon. That lasts till around 3:00 PM after which it gets dark again pretty quickly.

Well, thank you all so much for your continued support of my family and prayers for me while I am away. Until next time… cheers!

Sunday my friend and I made our way up to the Moose Mountain Ski Resort for a bit of snowboarding. Oh and before you get the wrong idea the word resort is used very loosely here. Continue story. We were both new to snowboarding so we rented our gear and bought a pass for the bunny hill, aka Moose Meadow… how cute. Well, as it turns out it’s not so cute for beginners! More on that later. One of the interesting things about this particular ski resort is that they didn’t use ski lifts. They used big greyhound buses to run groups of skiers up the mountain. Seemed odd to me and not very financially efficient given gas prices, but whatever works.

Well, we’re at the top of this bunny hill and neither one of use has had lessons. Nobody offered us any pointers either. We strapped our snowboards on, way too far from the slope the first time as it turns out. So we ended up being tired and wore out just trying to scoot our ways to the slope. Of course when we got there the hilarity ensued for many laughs. Both of us had some really exceptional wipeouts. I’m usually a pretty quick student so I caught on pretty fast and was doing quite well by the third trip down. The problem was I think I peaked (pun intended) too early and it seemed that I just got worse. Oh well, I still had a great time.